An afternoon reverse commute inbound train heads for it's next stop in LaGrange.
Outbound Metra trains on Main 1 and 3 race to the Naperville Station. Main 3's train was going just a bit quicker and won.
The famed Brookfield water tower and the Sears Tower both stand tall, as Metra 187 races down the Race Track.
A Metra F40PHM passes through its home town of La Grange. Though only in their second decade of service, the PHMs have developed a propensity for smoking not shared by their older EMD cousins.
View from the Hill yard bridge in Aurora Ill.
METX 187 pushes a scoot into the terminal to get ready for the rush, while a Amtrak P32 races it in.
Metra 187 shoves an inbound train towards Chicago after stopping in Downers Grove.
An express outbound scoot races up to the Cicero stop
Two outbounds and an empty inbound from the massive Metra Yard start to dance and move for tonights rush.
the new South Gate Market complex is maybe the best thing to happen to railfanning the CUS yard since the E8
Metra 187 is not done for the day, heading back to the western suburbs with a off-rush-hour dinky. Metra 194 is done, pulling through the wash racks, and then off to the coach yard.
After dumping about 12 inches of snow overnight, the clouds are only now just starting to break up as METX 187 pulls into Main Street Station.
